Benjamin Bosse High School

Benjamin Bosse High School, referred to as Evansville Bosse High School by the IHSAA, is a public high school of the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation in Evansville, Indiana, United States. Bosse is the third smallest high school by enrollment of Vanderburgh County's nine high schools. The school is a contributing property to the Lincolnshire Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places.

History

The school was initially financed by Benjamin Bosse, who was the mayor of Evansville from 1914 to 1922. Construction began on the school in 1922 and opened for its first pupils in 1924, serving what was then the east side of Evansville.

Bosse's boys basketball team won the state championship in 1944 the first area team to do so. The school won again in 1945 and 1962. Bosse's band marched in the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida on New Year's Eve in 1970-1971 and also played in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Munich, Germany.

Sports

Also see: Sports in Evansville

State Titles

Boys Basketball (1943–44), (1944–45), (1961–62)

Notable alumni

Marty Amsler, former National Football League defensive end
Pete Fox, Major League Baseball player from 1933 to 1945.
Roy Halston Frowick, fashion designer
Arad McCutchan, Hall of Fame basketball coach, University of Evansville
Michael Michele, actress, best known for ER
Talitha Washington, mathematician and STEM education activist at Howard University
Roger H. Zion, U.S. congressman for Indiana (1967–1975)